24 Van Alloys Industrial Estate, Busgrove Lane, Stoke Row, RG9 5QW Data via plota.co.uk

P25/S2125/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Satec Service Ltd have 4 x long shipping containers for equipment storage. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
7 Jul 2025
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Validated
18 Aug 2025
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Approved
20 Jan 2026

Approved on 20 Jan 2026 · Committee · Last checked 18 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by South Oxfordshire Planning Committee on 14 Jan 2026. Earlier deferred on 3 Dec 2025.

Approved

As officers recommended.

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

  • Officers recommended approval, finding the containers caused no harm to highway safety, neighbouring amenity or the character of the industrial estate.
  • The parish council objected to the containers' visual impact, though it indicated it could support two side-by-side containers instead of four.
  • Members voted to approve the application, tying the permission to the current occupier and requiring the containers to be painted a recessive colour.
Read how the committee decided The officers' assessment, the parish council's objection, the debate on conditions, and the vote.

Source: Plota analysis of South Oxfordshire's committee minutes of 14 Jan 2026.

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 6

Chilterns National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Inside the Stoke Row built-up area; Priority habitat about 47 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 1 November 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Application type
Full Application
Postcode
RG9 5QW
Received
7 Jul 2025
Validated
18 Aug 2025
Case officer
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Target decision
13 Oct 2025
Decision
Planning Permission is Granted
Decision date
20 Jan 2026
Decision level
Committee
Applicant
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Agent
Satec Service Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 155 days from validation, 76 days slower than South Oxfordshire's median of 79 for full applications. Approved, as 87% of full applications here are.

33%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
7%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by South Oxfordshire in the last twelve months, from validation. South Oxfordshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 18 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
20 Aug 2025
Comments by
11 Sept 2025
Statutory expiry
13 Oct 2025
South Oxfordshire
Planning Authority Score
7.6/10
Good
#39 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

South Oxfordshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #89 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
98% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
South Oxfordshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #47 of 296
98%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #23 of 296
74%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #89 of 296
35%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #105 of 296
83%
Minor dwellings approved
163 decided (1-9 homes)
56%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
26 decided
1,529
Total decisions
96 refused in the year to March 2026